Short nucleosome repeats impose rotational modulations on chromatin fibre folding

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2416-2426

  Correll, Sarah J ^a,b   Schubert, Michaela H ^a   Grigoryev, Sergei A ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

chromatin fibre; higher order structure; linker DNA; linker histone; nucleosome

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOSOME REPEAT LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

CHROMATIN; DNA, FUNGAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSOMES; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84861116574     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.80     Document Type: Article

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